Policemen beat up a journalist of a private news channel and took away his mobile phone after deleting a video of officers allegedly taking a goat in a mobile van. After the video went viral on social media, senior officers launched a search for the police mobile and three personnel in uniform and two in […]

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Finance Minister Ishaq Dar lost his cool with a reporter at the Parliament House on Thursday after being questioned about the completion of the stalled International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. After addressing a National Assembly session, Dar, flanked by his security guards, was departing the Parliament building when a reporter — identified as Shahid Qureshi […]

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South Waziristan: A region that for long has battled against terrorism and security issues is now facing a new set of obstacles in its path to progress. The absence of the Internet and mobile phone services has not only impeded developments in the region but also hindered the work of journalists. In a united front, […]

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South Waziristan: A region that for long has battled against terrorism and security issues is now facing a new set of obstacles in its path to progress. The absence of the Internet and mobile phone services has not only impeded developments in the region but also hindered the work of journalists. In a united front, […]

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PESHAWAR: In a striking trend, despite a growing number of female graduates in Journalism and Mass Communication departments across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities, 90 percent of students are abandoning their journalism careers upon completion of their degrees. This unsettling underrepresentation of females in the field has sparked profound questions about the societal norms and the prevailing culture […]

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PESHAWAR: In a striking trend, despite a growing number of female graduates in Journalism and Mass Communication departments across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities, 90 percent of students are abandoning their journalism careers upon completion of their degrees. This unsettling underrepresentation of females in the field has sparked profound questions about the societal norms and the prevailing culture […]

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ISLAMABAD—Sabir Shakir, one of the journalists outside Pakistan facing treason charges, has said he has been receiving death threats since April 2022. “Only a few days back I have received a message asking to be quiet, otherwise you will be killed,” Sabir said in a tweet in Urdu. He termed the treason case against him […]

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